Strangest Degree

Earlier we were once again discussing Mickey Mouse Degrees, one of the subjects brought up was Meat Managment, do you or any of your friends currently or plan to do such a weird, random (draining on the taxpayers) course in the future?

Didn't the papers once said something about a degree into the Beckhams? Who wants to study them anyways? They are so boring and don't belong in the UK. They can just f*ck off to Spain.

This I find interesting. People who want to study them often read the tabloids, perhaps university is just an extention.

As for the latter remark: "they are boring AND do not belong in the UK". Why would that be, is it *because* they are boring that they do not belong in the UK? Do you have any other reason, independent of them being boring, as to why they do not belong in the UK?

Earlier we were once again discussing Mickey Mouse Degrees, one of the subjects brought up was Meat Managment, do you or any of your friends currently or plan to do such a weird, random (draining on the taxpayers) course in the future?

Didn't the papers once said something about a degree into the Beckhams? Who wants to study them anyways? They are so boring and don't belong in the UK. They can just f*ck off to Spain.

Didn't the papers once said something about a degree into the Beckhams?

It was a PhD and almost certainly self funded (I can't imagine the AHRB stumping up for it)...the papers seem to have trouble distinguishing between a module/unit and an entire degree as well. Just because you spend 1/8th of a yr studying something that sounds a little bit daft doesn't mean your entire degree is based on it.

I would love to do a PHd in Graphical User Interfaces but it is never going to happen as I would not have the dedication or money. If I could choose to do a PHd though it would be that.

Why do people have this assumption that PhDs *cost* money to do. The majority are funded by the research councils and universities (because only a small minorty can afford to self fund their own research...and that's generally in arts subjects where the biggest expense is likely to be the equivalent of a mortgage in photocopying fees from the library)

I know 2 people currently doing PhDs, on doing a linguistics PhD in nottingham being paid £12k pa (TAX FREE!!!) and the other doing an engineering PhD in Soton being paid £9k pa tax free. If youre PhD subject is of interest to a business or one of the research councils then you will have no trouble getting funded...the people who have trouble getting funded are the people determined to research in a very narrow subject area and not willing to adapt their research to suit the market.

Didn't the papers once said something about a degree into the Beckhams? Who wants to study them anyways? They are so boring and don't belong in the UK. They can just f*ck off to Spain.

It is quite possible to do a degree in brewery

Yeah but I doubt even TVU would offer to fund me to a PHd as I am simply not intelligent enough. They must be very hard otherwise loads of people would do them.

They aren't hard it just depends on the type of work you enjoy...a lot of people don't enjoy the research part of a degree and so don't want to continue it. It does require you to really love your subject though (especially the area you specialise in) and the majority of people have had enough after 3 yrs on a bachelors course.

As for doubting your intelligence don't be daft - if you put the effort into your dissertation and ace it and don't mind researching into the areas that have funding available you will find it easy to find a studentship (even if you get a relatively poor overall degree classification - I know someone who got a 3rd but walked straight into a palaeo PhD at Sheffield because they aced their dissertation and the modules on their specialism and our palaeo lecturer recommended them).